Anyone else disappointed by this vehicle? The cockpit model and internals are atrocious. The plane is so slow that you get eaten up by even the weakest of fighters because you can’t climb or dive due to the rip speed. It sucks that we just got given a plane that’s been sitting in the files for years that isn’t really unique or interesting and isn’t really competitive at all.
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Did you seriously expect a bomber to be worth using? Is the PBM-5A the first bomber you’ve ever played or something.
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Free Battlepass vehicles that are actually good are rare now :(
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Not all bombers are useless, but my point still stands - it’s disappointing whether you like bombers or not
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Some bombers are quite fun and can even be good against fighters. PBM is not one of them.
Even the main prize this time is very standard, and arguably should have been tech tree instead of the 95% copy paste M109
Yeah, my biggest gripe is the quality of the vehicles too. We’ve all heard the discussions of how the sholef is poorly modeled, and the PBM is no different. The cockpit looks like it’s from a PS1 game
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You can probably count the number of bombers that have fully modelled cockpits on one hand. Gaijin uses the excuse that bombers cockpits take too long to model, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable excuse, though I think they could do a better job of making placeholder cockpits a bit more bearable to look at. Some decent textures would go a long way.
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I definitely understand their perspective, bombers aren’t popular and don’t bring in tons of players. It would be nice to see some updated “default” cockpit parts and controls that could just be pasted into the not fully modeled cockpits, so they don’t look so barren.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Of course - i will never use this thing again after the 4 matches as test drive:
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I read your OP and I agreed, but I still had hoped it wouldn’t be as bad as you predicted. I already redeemed my coupon so it is what it is.
In theory it should be great in Naval, 8x 1000lb and 50cal turrets at 3.7 should mean £$€¥¢.
But no. Fat, slow, flies like a brick, hates to climb, and by the time you’ve reached the drop point and lined up the targets have either moved on or you are facing AA that can predict your flight path with ease. And those defensive guns won’t help so much if you play safe and choose to stratosphere as any intercepting fighter can simply strafe your belly.
I took it out for the test drives and got half way through the 20k BP vehicle challenge, I gave it hard love and left the coupon in my museum of shame.
On the plus side the type has beefed up my AA stats, especially Vega with her proximity fuses (3 in one battle alone! ). And she didn’t really disappoint as I never expected it to be good anyway.
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